InterestID The
basis of their coaching comes from an understanding of each student’s
strengths, weakness, and interests. NextLesson makes it easy for
teachers find out what interests students. K-12 students can share their
likes and dislikes for interests in over 30 categories, ranging from
careers to amusement parks. Teachers can determine student interests as a
class and find interest-aligned projects in NextLesson’s bank of
projects

Urtak simple polling service that can be used on any blog or website. The
polls you create can have multiple questions, but they must be "yes or
no" questions. But Urtak isn't that limited because visitors to your poll also have the option of writing in their own questions.

Nuskool This is a site that uses pop culture as teaching moments for students. Tailored to grades 6th-12th students learn a variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, English, etc through educational lessons based on the different elements of pop culture (video games, sports, films, etc.).

Computer software or browser-based programs

APPitic- A site for finding educational apps. There are over 1300 apps reviewed by Apple Distinguished Educators.

Virtual Field Trips

Virtual field trips are interactive Web-based experiences that guide students through an exploration of content about themes, such as a specific place or time. Although virtual field trips may not offer the same sensory experience as being the physical location, they do have some advantages over traditional on-site field trips. Students are given the opportunity to take control of their own learning, making it a more meaningful experience.

more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn’t normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor!

may boost students’ reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments

students are given the freedom to move at their own pace

explore topics related to their own depth of interest

students can revisit these field trips over and over, providing many opportunities to review and explore

Electronic Virtual Field Tripsscience and social studies tripscompiled by the University of PittsburghGoogle Maps website, search for a
city or a place you want to visit, then drag and drop the little orange
man onto the map to get started. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous,
pick him up and drop him anywhere.

Virtual Field TripsField trips in numerous subject areas and a tutorial how to create your own.

Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage is avirtual tour of Charles Darwin's nearly five year journey on the Beagle. Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage has fourteen segments chronicling Darwin's voyage from start to finish. Throughout the tour viewers will see sketches from the journey, hear readings from Darwin's journals, and learn about the journey as a whole. The virtual tour is not limited to just Darwin's work as a naturalist. Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage explores social issues of the time such as slavery.

Historical narrated panoramic tours of interesting and significant historic sites. Some of the panoramas you will find in the collection include Davy Crockett's childhood home, Appomattox Courthouse, Thomas Edison's birthplace, and Valley Forge.

Project ExplorerCategorized by age groupsand by length to complete. All content is in one place.Planet in Action Google Earth is a highly detailed 3D representation of our entire planet. Rather than just looking at it, why not play on it! PlanetInAction.com brings you top quality ideas, applications and concepts that will let you experience your planet in a whole new way.

World Wonders ProjectFrom the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.

Google Art Project website, which we’ve mentioned before,
you can explore 17 different museums from all around the world. Whether
you’re interested in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,
the Palace of Versailles in France or the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam,
you’ll find it here.

100 Educational Virtual Field Trips

Africam offers
live webcams from Africa, 24/7. You’ll have to watch an advertisement,
but once you have, you’ll get a high-quality video with sound.

Eternal Egypt a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. The stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more. There are many ways to begin your journey through Eternal Egypt. The guided tour is a quick way to experience the best that the site has to offer. You can also begin with one of the cultural highlights below, or make your own discoveries using one of the many other ways to explore.

San Diego Zoo’s website
offers a variety of live cameras pointed at the animals in its
enclosures. Pick your favorite camera and watch the pandas, elephants,
polar bears, apes or condors.National Park Service - Distance learning opportunities. Can arrange to skype with rangers

Meet Me at the CornerVirtual Field Trips for Kids takes you to meet fascinating people from all over the world.

The European Virtual Museum is the product of collaboration between twenty-seven European museums. The European Virtual Museum makes artifacts of European history available in interactive 3D form. Visitors to the European Virtual Museum
can browse through the collections by chronology, geographic area,
object type, contributing museum, routes, and tour itineraries

Virtual Dinosaur Dig will show you how to unearth buried bones. You can peek at some cool
three-dimensional images of real fossils afterward by taking the
accompanying Virtual Museum Tour.

Tenement Museum
is a resource for US History teachers that can best be described as an
interactive virtual museum. Students select a male or female character
for their passport from Europe to Ellis Island. Once at Ellis Island
students learn about the process of legal immigration. Eventually
students make it to the Orchard Street tenement where they have to
choose an occupation as well as make choices regarding living
conditions. At the very end of the exhibit, students can write a post
card to their friends and family back in Europe. Throughout the journey,
students see short video clips featuring "Victoria Confino" who
explains to students what they are seeing and reading.

Worksheetsis a program that allows teachers to create worksheets that
go beyond the capabilities of paper-based worksheets, adding interactive
and
multimedia elements such as drag-drop matching, instant feedback, and
audio
recording and playback.

Nuskool This is a site that uses pop culture as teaching moments for students. Tailored to grades 6th-12th students learn a variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, English, etc through educational lessons based on the different elements of pop culture (video games, sports, films, etc.).

Frolyca
tool for teachers looking to design their own lesson-based
activities. Teachers can create activities for students like:
completing a graphic organizer, identify cause and effect in a passage,
draw a response to a question or take a quiz. Students can access
activities that are assigned to them by a teacher using Frolyc’s iPad
app Activity Spot.
As students complete the activity, teachers will receive feedback on
student progress in real time! You can access a library filled with
Common Core aligned activities created and shared by other teachers.
You can create a unique learning experience for your students. a
learning and assessment tool,
Froylc is a powerful platform for increasing student engagement and
monitoring student progress. Since Froylc lets users assign activities
to students individually, it’s easy to differentiate student tasks.

Skype in the Classroom
- Designed for education, this site brings teachers, projects and
resources together from all around the world. This is a free site
designed for video conferencing and global learning.